Hiring Right: Where Do You Find the Best Talent?

Labor expenses are typically an organization’s highest costs, which
means making great hires is an issue of critical importance. To find the
best people, first you need to know where to look.

Paycor Organizational Development Specialist Allison Flynn offers her
insights on how to find candidates more strategically by analyzing
where your new employees really come from.

Applicants have dozens of places they can go to find jobs these days.
Whether it's a dedicated website, such as Indeed.com; a social
networking site, such as LinkedIn; or live networking through a
referral, applicants use multiple avenues to find employment.

When you track these sources and analyze them, you can get a good
picture of where you should dedicate more resources, in addition to
what might not be working for your organization. Take a look at the
volume of candidates who apply through each source, as well as how many
associates you’ve hired from each source. This kind of data can help you
determine where you might need to focus your hiring energy.

On the other hand, you might choose not to devote time to posting and
maintaining listings to, or paying for membership on, certain job boards
that haven’t proven fruitful in the past.

You can parse your data by position and location to drill down
further into finding the best source for hiring quality candidates per
function or geographical area. You might find that LinkedIn is a more
useful resource for one type or level of position, whereas referrals are
a better source to tap into for other roles.

Also consider not only where you’re finding candidates, but which
sources ultimately provide you the most actual new hires. For example,
you might have had 92 people apply for jobs through Indeed.com, but
you've hired only two of those applicants. Meanwhile, 60 people have
applied through LinkedIn and you've hired 14 of those applicants.

Paycor’s Applicant Tracking
solution
can simplify the hiring process and allow you to capture and study
data for your future planning. Applicant Tracking interfaces with
multiple candidate sources and houses information in one database.
Watch this 2-minute demo
to see how Applicant Tracking can power your organization’s growth with
the right people from the right places.

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